What is QuickSort

Quick Sort In Java. The Java developers might choose to use the built-in QuickSort implementation or another one that is much, much much faster. This article does not tell you in which way Java implements QuickSort. It just tells you how to use it.

Why implement QuickSort?

QuickSort is a good, fast sorting method, it simply sorts the string in no arbitrary order, and there is no special code or anything to run on each character. It's fast.

The main disadvantage of QuickSort is that the number of comparisons between the string and each element is too high. Each comparison is potentially O(1), which is the worst possible solution in comparison. This problem is easily solved by using a slower sorting algorithm like an Ordinal or Radix sort instead.

How is QuickSort implemented?

QuickSort uses the Java.sort() API to sort the string, as well as a Java.quicksort() method to sort it quickly.

The best way to implement QuickSort is to use the standard implementation. You can see where this is going?

If you implement QuickSort yourself then you can still use the Java.sort() and Java.quicksort() methods (as they are used directly) to speed up the implementation, but this is more of a "you should know about what you're doing" than a good thing.

So what does QuickSort do?

QuickSort performs the following tasks in a very short time:

Sorts the string using a descending sort (this is called sorting in descending order, it is also called String Sort). The descending kind is used primarily in cases where the sorting is more efficient than trying to sort it based on the previous character, or where there is a very significant difference for the previous character between the new and the old string, in which case the standard sorting algorithm would not suffice (i.e. when the input string is longer than a string of this size).

The descending kind is used primarily in cases where the sorting is more efficient than trying to sort it based on the previous character, or where there is a very significant difference for the previous character between the new and the old string, in which case the standard sorting algorithm would not suffice (i.e. when the input string is longer than a string of this size). Creates a sorted array of the string element values.

Sorts each element in the sorted array and returns the new sorted array.

Sorts a string in one run. In other words, the implementation counts the number of comparisons made and calculates the difference between the previous character and the new character.

Sorts a string in one run.

Sorts a string in multiple runs. As a consequence, the number of comparisons is O(N).

Sorts a string in N run.

In other words, when the original string is a list of values of length N, the implementation does an O(log N) comparison for each value of length N. A list of length N is then sorted in O(N) time.

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Sorts all elements in a single run.

Sorts a list of the strings in one run.

Sorts a vector of strings in 3 runs.

In other words when a vector of strings is sorted in O(N) time it isn't limited to a small list of values, it can be a sequence of strings (or other vectors), arrays or any other kind of list.

For more information about sorting and other implementations, check out this excellent reference.

So where is my list of useful methods?

There are quite a few methods that you need to know about as well.

The Standard Sort

When the standard Algorithm 1 is used the following algorithms are often used.

Normal sort takes an array of characters (usually a List) and sorts each string (it's a list, it's not a variable array), in O(log N).

To avoid overloading the sort_list() method, Algorithm 2 is sometimes used by many programmers as it is faster and shorter than Algorithm 1. However, the performance and scalability of Algorithm 2 is often limited to a limited set of cases, such as data-tables. Also when working with large lists or tables it might be a very bad idea to override Algorithm 1 because it takes so much more time. If that's the case, you could try to find a replacement for Algorithm 2 such as LBR or L2 insertion sort, then pick the right Algorithm when the data becomes small enough ? more on this later. But I don't suggest you try this with the lists and databases, they probably have their own special sorting algorithm.

sort_list() is not that much slower than sort()

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Here is example of QuickSort in Java:

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